_, in the sixth right
intercostal space, just behind the posterior axillary line. The
trooper was sitting bolt upright on his horse at the time; both
were shot and fell together. 'Stitch' on coughing or laughing
was the only sign noted after the accident; this rapidly
subsided.

(206) _Wound of the liver._--Wounded at Magersfontein. _Entry_
(Mauser), through the seventh left costal cartilage, 1 inch
from the base of the ensiform cartilage; _exit_, below the
twelfth rib 2 inches to the right of the lumbar spines. The
patient lay on the field some hours and was brought in at night
very cold, and suffering with much shock. No signs of abdominal
injury developed, but the pulse remained as slow as 66 for some
days, and there was some pain and stiffness about back and
sides, or on taking a deep breath. These signs persisted some
days, but no others developed, and in six weeks the patient
returned to duty.

Some three months later this patient suffered from a short
severe attack suggesting local peritonitis, but he again
returned to duty.

(207) _Wound of the liver._--Wounded at Tweefontein. _Entry_,
in eighth intercostal space in right mid axillary line; _exit_,
1-1/2 inch below the point of the ensiform cartilage, 1/2 an
inch to the right of the mid line. The wounds were large, and
although the impact had been oblique, they were possibly
produced by a Martini-Henry or Guedes bullet.

On the second day bile began to escape from the exit aperture,
and this together with a little pus continued to be discharged
for a week, when the wound rapidly healed up. The only symptom
which occasioned any trouble was a stitch on inspiration,
probably attributable to the wound of the diaphragm. There was
no fracture of the rib.

(208) _Wound of the liver._--Wounded outside Heilbron at a
range of fifty yards. _Entry_ (Mauser), in the tenth right
interspace 2 inches to the right of the dorsal spines; _exit_,
through the gladiolus, immediately to the right of the median
line, and just above the junction with the ensiform cartilage.
There was considerable shock on reception of the injury, and a
great feeling of dizziness. Continuous vomiting set in and
persisted for the first two days, then became occasional, and
ceased only at the end of a